Live from Ottawa: Islanders "Hangover"?Posted by Steve Zipay on December 1, 2007 12:59 PM ***************************************************For those scoring at home:Greg Logan's blog: Five Entries.Steve Zipay's blog: Twenty Five Entries.

Logan: Paycheck-Just the required job.Zipay: Passion-Constant updates, answers fan responses and does several game updates.***************************************************Greg Logan did not even create a blogroll in his section while Steve Zipay lists a bunch of Ranger sites.***************************************************Newsday's Sunday Hockey Feature is written by Steve Zipay and is usually Ranger centric. ***************************************************New York Rangers Blogs:Steve Zipay-NewsdaySam Weinman-Journal NewsSteve Soderwall: PostJohn Dellapina: NewsLynn Zisner: TimesSI Advance: Has Ranger blog

New York Islander Blogs:Greg Logan-Newsday

NYI Fan Central Comments:Sorry Mr Logan, it's not personal on my part but to see the Islanders outblogged this badly in the only paper giving them full time coverage has to be written about and your passion for what the Islander beat means to you has to be questioned even if you are professional and fill the job requirement.

As I have written several times you cannot manufacture passion for covering an assignment, it's a job and you do what's required.

The New York Islanders need more than this in their primary beatwriter.

3 comments:

I consider this a great site and a great resource for Islander fans, Thanks so much for putting this together.

In defense of Logan, his blogs are usually long, relevant and informantive. The Zipay blogs, while many are often too brief and meaningless. So I do not think we are comparing apples to apples here. One Logan blog may be equivalent to 7,8 blogs from Zipay. I think Logan approaches the blog as another article in the traditional sense. But that does not mean he lacks passion for covering the Isles.

I agree Mr Logan's blog has more information in them than Mr Zipay's and perhaps he does approach his blog as another article.

Having written that Mr Zipay goes out of his way to interact with his readers, bring practice and game day information and seemingly treats his beat as something important to the public where in Mr Logan's case he's professional, does what the job requires but is not doing his job from the standpoint of someone who cares one way or another if the Islanders win or lose.

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